Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Standardbred yearling auction house APG has been beset by problems on all sides in recent times. Stood down CEO, resigned board members, money problems leading the to abandonment of live sales, and a strong and ever surging competitor in Nutrien have left APG badly in need of a win. It didn’t get it from last […]
The APG are an standardbred auction house on a deep and slippery slide. Their CEO has been stood down after sexual harassment claims were made against him. A board member has left the building after similar claims were made against them. The outfit is so cash strapped that it has had t0 abandon live sales […]
The once industry owned standardbred auction company Australian Pacing Gold (APG) is in total disarray, with many asking how much longer it can survive in the face of fierce competition from the increasingly popular rival auction house Nutrien. Money is said to be short, but we don’t know how short because APG doesn’t publish its […]
On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab’s leg and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of ivory. The whaling voyage of the Pequod ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab’s hatred […]
We have been writing for months about claims of misconduct being made against the boss of a major standardbred yearling sales company. There are only two. Nutrien and APG. And the Nutrien boss Mark Burton is a stand up guy who respects women to the nth degree. APG CEO Anthony Essex (pictured at top) is […]
Gawler is no more Adelaide than the Gold Coast is Brisbane. The APG Yearling Sale venue in Gawler is no more the Magic Millions sale yard than I am George Clooney. This was no more a sale than you are Diego Maradona. It was just a joke. The top priced lot brought only $18 grand. […]
https://www.facebook.com/AustPacingGold/videos/1520893449367071/ The APG Yearling sale in South Australia is about to kick off, and if the parade of lots before the sale is any guide the whole thing looks like an absolute shambles. Gawler is the venue for this year’s sale, and as you can see from the footage above it is totally inadequate. There […]
The rumors out of APG Sydney post-yearling sale event are ugly. Apparently a very senior unpaid official of the company manhandled a staff member that they were for one reason or another extremely unhappy with. The official was said to have been drinking red wine heavily for many hours before the incident, and is reported […]
Why the hell do people insist on saying this sort of stuff on their professional profiles? Wouldn’t it just be assumed that a bloke who is married is a good family man who loves his wife and kids? After all, that is the whole point of being married and being a father isn’t it? What’s […]
I thought the APG standardbred yearling sale a week ago in Perth did great by averaging $40 768 per lot. 2026 Perth Sale Results But yesterday’s Nutrien sale in Sydney did even better. $45 671.42 it averaged. For an Aussie yearling sale without jacked up half million plus dollar races for local bred 2-year-olds like […]
